Species Exoediceros fossor (Stimpson, 1856)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oedicerus fossor Stimpson, W. 1856. Descriptions of some new marine Invertebrata. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 7(10): 385-394 [394].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (lost), Botany Bay, NSW.
• Oedicerus arenicola Haswell, W.A. 1879. On some additional new genera and species of amphipodous crustaceans. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 4(3): 319-356 pls 18-24 [325, pl. 24 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   Neotype AM P41784 ♂, Shark Island, Port Jackson, NSW
  Comment: Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1982. Redescription of Exoediceros fossor (Stimpson, 1856) an Australian marine fossorial amphipod, the type-genus of the new family Exoedicerotidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95(3): 610–620 designated a lectotype from material cited as NSW Museum no. 10406; this material was assumed to be, but cannot be shown to be the original material of Haswell; the designation is now regarded as that of a neotype; see Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1994. Catalogue of crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1–134.

  Type locality references:

  Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1982. Redescription of Exoediceros fossor (Stimpson, 1856) an Australian marine fossorial amphipod, the type-genus of the new family Exoedicerotidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95(3): 610-620; Springthorpe, R.T. & Lowry, J.K. 1994. Catalogue of crustacean type specimens in the Australian Museum: Malacostraca. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum 11: 1-134.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Barnard, J.L. & Drummond, M.M. 1982. Redescription of Exoediceros fossor (Stimpson, 1856) an Australian marine fossorial amphipod, the type-genus of the new family Exoedicerotidae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95(3): 610-620 [611]

Generic Combinations

• Exoediceros fossor (Stimpson, 1856). —
  Stebbing, T.R.R. 1906. Amphipoda I. Gammaridae. Das Tierreich 21: 1-806 [239]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Littoral, marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Beach, protected areas in shallow sands.

General References

Dexter, D.M. 1985. Distribution and life histories of abundant crustaceans of four sandy beaches of south-eastern New South Wales. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 36: 281-289

Jones, A.R., Murray, A. & Marsh, R.E. 1991. Patterns of abundance of exoedicerotid amphipods on sandy beaches near Sydney, Australia. pp. 119-126 in Watling, L. Proceedings of the VIIth International Colloquium on Amphipoda held in Walpole, Maine, USA, 14–16 September 1990. Hydrobiologia 223: i-viii, 1-299

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